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FacultyDr. W. Mark Wilder, Interim Dean Dr. Duffy Morf
StaffMr. Robert L. Bradford
Dr. Dale L. Flesher is professor and Arthur Andersen Alumni Lecturer in the School of Accountancy at the University of Mississippi, and serves as associate dean of the School of Accountancy. He is the coordinator of all graduate programs in Accountancy at Ole Miss. Dr. Flesher joined the Ole Miss faculty in 1977, following four years at Appalachian State University. He received both bachelors and masters degrees from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Flesher holds CPA, CIA, CMA, CFM, CFE, and CGFM certificates. He has authored over 300 articles for more than 100 different professional journals throughout the world, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accountancy, Management Accounting, Internal Auditing, Internal Auditor, The CPA Journal, Government Accountants Journal, Managerial Auditing Journal, Taxation for Accountants, TAXES, The Accounting Historians Journal, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting, Business and Financial History, Business and Economic History, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. He is also the author of 37 books, including Operations Auditing in Hospitals, Internal Auditing Standards and Practices, Independent Auditors Guide to Operational Auditing, Introduction to Financial Accounting, CMA Examination Review (with Irv Gleim), and the 50th anniversary history of The Institute of Internal Auditors and the 75th anniversary history of the American Accounting Association. He has had five tax books published by Commerce Clearing House. One of his recent books was a history of the accountancy program at Ole Miss. Dr. Flesher is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Institute of CPAs, Mississippi Society of CPAs, American Taxation Association, Institute of Internal Auditors, Association of Government Accountants, Institute of Management Accountants, American Accounting Association, Newcomen Society, Mississippi Historical Society, and the Academy of Accounting Historians (which he served as international president in 1988). Dr. Flesher has served as editor of The Accounting Historians Journal, a position he held from 1989 through 1994. He previously edited The Accounting Historians Notebook for ten years. Dr. Flesher has won numerous research and teaching awards. In 1987, he won the University of Mississippi's Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award as the outstanding faculty member campuswide. Earlier, in 1976, he won the campus-wide outstanding teacher of the year award from Appalachian State University. He won the 1990 Leon Radde Award from the Institute of Internal Auditors as the outstanding auditing educator world wide. He was the Mississippi Society of CPAs 1998 Educator of the Year. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Finance and Industry. One of his books and many articles have been translated into Chinese by a publisher in the Peoples Republic of China. He recently served on an AICPA task force which drafted a Statement of Position. In 1996, he served on an AICPA task force coordinating the centennial celebration of the CPA examination. As part of the CPA centennial celebration, he co-produced and scripted a video on the history of the CPA in America. He is the Convener and Program Director for the 2004 World Congress of Accounting Historians. He has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of the AICPA Foundation. Dr. Flesher has been treasurer of the Oxford-University United Methodist Church in Oxford since 1985. He also serves as treasurer of the University's chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honorary. He served nine years (1992-1997, 1998-2002 on the school board of Oxford-University School, a local private school. Besides his 36 years teaching experience, Dr. Flesher had short stints with Arthur Andersen & Co. in New Orleans, a local CPA firm in Muncie, Indiana, and Anaconda Corporation in Marion, Indiana. His hobbies include playing basketball, tennis and softball, and collecting antique stock certificates (scripophily). His wife Tonya, also an Ole Miss accountancy professor, was the MSCPA's Outstanding Educator in 1995. They have a 22-year old son, Flyn, and a 11-year-old daughter, Felicity.
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